[TriLUG] Volunteers requested for School Home Loaner Linux Project

Rock Roskam Rock.Roskam at sas.com
Wed Feb 16 08:18:58 EST 2005


Look at Knoppix there are good articles in the recent Linux Journal about customizing the interface.  As a note for Citrix I found that Knoppix 3.7 includes java and can enter and install the Citrix java client without modification.  


Rock 

-----Original Message-----
From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On Behalf Of Mark Peters
Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 10:48 PM
To: trilug at trilug.org
Subject: [TriLUG] Volunteers requested for School Home Loaner Linux Project

Hi,

TechCoaches is looking for some volunteers to develop a Linux distribution for our growing home loaner program for students in the Chapel Hill/Carrboro district who do not currently have internet access.

We are currently using 200+ thin clients to provide internet and citrix access to our students to the school system from home via dial-up.  The thin clients are slightly customized for the school district (modem added), are more expensive than refurb PCs, require customization of each unit, support a limited subset of desired requirements, and have other limitations.  We need to support another 800+ student loaners and want to use Linux instead of the WinCE-based thin clients.

This is a perfect opportunity to leverage Linux.  We want a bootable-from-CD version which would start fresh at each boot and would be low maintenance.  (ie - virus-free at each boot, free of config change problems, etc).

The first draft of our requirements are located at http://www2.chccs.k12.nc.us/education/components/whatsnew/default.php?sectiondetailid=8599&id=291&viewType=detail 


Please email me if you are interested in this opportunity or have suggestions on our approach.

Thanks!
Mark Peters
TechCoaches Volunteer Program Director (parent) www.techcoaches.org



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